AP MFY IGT - 2006

[Frayed Knot]

Well we can save tyring to look up that fact cuz Tad Iguchi just singled leading off the 7th ... and now a Thome walk.


... which reminds me, I was listening to a (live) Bobby V interview last night and the subject of Iguchi & KazMat came up and Bobby quoted Sadahura Oh who managed Iguchi and against Matsui. Oh's comment was that every year, every game, and in every way, Matsui was the better player in Japan.

Sigh

[Frayed Knot]

So the Sox are down 7-0 when they break up the no-hitter in the 7th
- they bust the shut-out and put two on the board in the 7th chasing Johnson ... and still have the bases loaded with no outs
- at which point they proceed to pop-up 3 times in a row against Ron (pro) Villone and don't get any more
- then they throw up a 4-spot in the 8th to make it 7-6 (capped by a Crede 3R HR) meaning ... THAT IF THEY HAD JUST PUSHED EVEN ONE MORE FREAKIN RUN ACROSS WHILE THEY HAD ALL THOSE BASERUNNERS THEY WOULDN'T BE LOSING THOSE FAT SCHMUCKS!!!!

Going to bottom 9 down by 1, trying to get to Rivera for the 2nd night in a row. He came in for the final out in the 8th.

[Elster88]

They didn't get it.

Oh and remember that Boston team that beat the shit out of the entire National League and the best team in the National League? Well, that team doesn't exist anymore. The team that currently plays in Boston lost again to Kansas City.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Banned for Life:

Scott Harper, 19, of Armonk, N.Y., who jumped from the upper deck at Yankee Stadium onto the netting behind home plate during a game last year, has been banned for life from the ballpark and could be sent to jail, a judge said. His criminal sentence, to be handed down Sept. 19, will depend on the outcome of another case in Westchester County for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I hope the judge bans him from Shea too, just for being a MFY fan.

[soupcan]

="Edgy DC"]Banned for Life: Scott Harper, 19, of Armonk, N.Y., who jumped from the upper deck at Yankee Stadium onto the netting behind home plate during a game last year, has been banned for life from the ballpark and could be sent to jail, a judge said. His criminal sentence, to be handed down Sept. 19, will depend on the outcome of another case in Westchester County for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

I read that he rejected a plea bargain of probation and restitution to the Yankees.

Smart move dumbass.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: I hope the judge bans him from Shea too, just for being a MFY fan.

I'm sort of a little surprised that the ban didn't extend to all MLB parks.

="soupcan"]I read that he rejected a plea bargain of probation and restitution to the Yankees.

I imagine the standard directive for all fan nusance/reckless endangerment incidents is for the director to never show the incident on TV, but to nonetheless train two cameras on it for evidence purposes.

Bet he countersues the Yankees for continuing to serve him while he was drunk.

[Guest silverdsl]

soupcan wrote: Smart move dumbass.

He's just continuing the dumbass theme he started when he got liquored up, jumped onto the net and disrupted the game, and then couldn't keep himself out of trouble after that and got arrested for DUI.

I wonder though how enforceable a ban from the stadium is though. They could prevent him from buying tickets in his name, but someone else could buy tickets for him, and while they could distribute his photo to ticket takers and security, with how many people are at the stadium for each game, I'd guess he could probably still slip in.

[Guest Edgy DC]

If anybody can keep somebody out, it's the Yankees.

[soupcan]

On 'Rescue Me' (best show on TV right now by the way) this week there was this exchange of dialogue:

Franco: Maybe I'll take him to the ballgame, I have a friend who has box seats at Yankee Stadium.

Girlfriend: That's no good, he's been banned from Yankee Stadium.

Franco: Oh?

Girlfriend: Apparently he's the only person who's ever shouted a racial epithet at Derek Jeter.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Julio Franco?

[soupcan]

John.

[Elster88]

F'real?

[soupcan]

Who are you, irish?

[metirish]

What did I do?

[soupcan]

metirish wrote: What did I do?

There's no Kevin Maas plaque at Yankee Stadium.

[Elster88]

I guess ARod sells papers. He's on the back cover of the Daily News, and the main Yankee article has his name leading the headline. Yet he's not mentioned in the article until about 2/3 of the way down, and that's for the ninth inning home run he hit (1-4, 2K). He didn't really have a huge part in the game.

[MFS62]

It reminds me of a few years ago when each night on the shows like "Entertainment Tonight" there was a seemingly obligatory Julia Roberts reference- whether she was in a current movie or not. Public relations machinery at its finest.
Another example I found curious was for many years seeing Marlo Thomas on the cover of magazines that catered to "homemakers". It was strange because she was neither married nor a mother.
Some names boost circulation as well as viewership.

Later

[metirish]

Travis Hafner has tied Don Mattingly's grand slam record with his sixth slam yesterday,I hope he breaks it.

[Elster88]

I never had a problem with Mattingly. He was on all those shitty Yankee teams back when the Yankee fan-base was made up mostly of genuine Yankee/baseball fans and not grossly overpopulated with bandwagoner jerks. And maybe I'm just too young to remember it correctly, but without the Internet and before the influx of the 8 billion TV/radio shows I'm guessing he wasn't constantly smashed down the America's throat the way Jeter is. I guess I don't much care that he holds this record, I've never been into breaking records just so a Yankee won't hold them.

And I like his moustache.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Mattingly is actually my litmus test. When someone tells me that he/she is a MFY fan, I ask, "What position did Don Mattingly play?" Those who hem and haw and can't venture a guess are bandwagoners.

[Elster88]

It still shocks me that anyone from the area wouldn't know that. Even before I got into stats and baseball cards, and before I knew anything about the Yankees (beyond that they also played in New York), and was only into the Mets, I knew who Mattingly was.

I think that's a good litmus test to prove someone is a bandwagoner. For me a correct answer wouldn't be enough to prove someone isn't a bandwagoner. If that makes sense.

Not that I often go around testing Yankee fans. These days I don't care if they are a bandwagoner or an old-timer. They all tend to get on my nerves.

[Centerfield]

I usually ask them to name a Yankee shortstop not named Jeter.

[Frayed Knot]

The weird thing about Mattingly's 6 GS season is that they came in the middle of his career and that they were the only 6 he ever hit.
Never hit even one before that season, never hit any after.

The other 'odd' record Mattingly holds part of is the consecutive HR streak - 8 games, since tied by several others. And the funny part about that is when YES shows the (then) record 8th on their between-innings highlights ... and the ball is bouncing around in a sea of empty RF bleacher seats.
There are probably a bushel full of recent Yanqui fans who don't know there was a time when empty seats was a regular occurance.

[stevejrogers]

Frayed Knot wrote: The weird thing about Mattingly's 6 GS season is that they came in the middle of his career and that they were the only 6 he ever hit. Never hit even one before that season, never hit any after. The other 'odd' record Mattingly holds part of is the consecutive HR streak - 8 games, since tied by several others. And the funny part about that is when YES shows the (then) record 8th on their between-innings highlights ... and the ball is bouncing around in a sea of empty RF bleacher seats. There are probably a bushel full of recent Yanqui fans who don't know there was a time when empty seats was a regular occurance.

And that seques nicely into this lovely piece by Bob Raisman the other day in the Daily News:

]Building blockheads On Wednesday, at 9:30 a.m., YES will offer live coverage of the ground-breaking ceremony for the new Yankee Stadium. Will Kay and John Sterling be part of the festivities? Remember the days when they, during the season on a nightly basis, bashed the Bronx on Yankee radiocasts? Remember when they said it was impossible for the Yankees to draw fans because of the neighborhood and traffic conditions? And will Yankee mascot Rudy Giuliani be in attendance? He would join Kay and Sterling in the radio booth to trash the Bronx while pushing George Steinbrenner's plan to build a new Stadium in Manhattan. Now, they all have changed their tune. How convenient.

Amen to that! Anyone listening to WFAN during these years could hear an endless stream of "I'm never going back there!" and the usual sob stories about horrible incidents witnessed at Yankee Stadium.

One particular one I remember because it was grossely untrue was a caller who said he knew the guy that designed the "Bat" outside the stadium, and pointed out to the caller when there was a crowd around doing what the person thought was gawking, turns out a very dead person was chained to it! Untrue because its a simple smokestack that eventually got the Louisville Slugger company to furnish it to look like Babe Ruth's old personal model, and you would need a lot of material to effecitivly chain someone to it. Not to mention it would be a noted bit of grisly triva in any book about crime in NYC

Well, the point is that I'll bet dollars to donuts that many of those who made those passioned, "NEVER AGAIN" calls to WFAN and letters to the sports editiors wound up back in the Stadium, dancing to the Macarena/YMCA/Cotton Eye Joe/or whatever, prasing the good name of Kate Smith or Ronan Tynan, and screaming Derek Jeter's name during the course of the last 12 seasons, when it became the "thing to do" again

Never mind of course that not a THING has changed in the neighboorhood outside Yankee Stadium. Little cosmetic things outside the actual Stadium have appeared, Sidewalk Cafe and Team Store, but nothing about the neighboorhood around River and 161st has changed. So tell me again how unsafe it is to be in Yankee Stadium?

Gee, I'd figure it be less safe when there is 50,000 people than there was when it was only 20,000 =

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Tom Cruise Stalked DiMaggio

]'Stalking' Joe: Tom's mission improbable? While people have been spooked by Tom Cruise of late, Joe DiMaggio was one of the first. The actor, who seems weirdlier and weirdlier to fans as he continues to refuse to show his and Katie Holmes' baby, Suri, scared the Yankee legend by following him, our source reports. This was in the mid-'90s, after Cruise had already starred in "Top Gun" and "Born on the Fourth of July," but the baseball great, once married to Marilyn Monroe, didn't realize - or didn't care - what a big star Cruise was. "He'd show up at baseball-signing shows and wait for Joe to come out," says the source. "One time, he waited outside a restaurant for him for three hours. [DiMaggio] called him 'a short little guy.' He didn't like it. He felt like he was stalking him." Cruise's spokesman didn't respond by deadline. And in fairness to Cruise, who J.J. Abrams said would come to his house alone on his motorcycle at midnight to convince him to direct "Mission: Impossible III," the actor could have been pursuing DiMaggio to try getting the rights to his story. But Joltin' Joe, who died in 1999 at 84, felt there was madness in his method. "Joe said to me, 'This guy is following me around everywhere I go,'" says our spy. "'Next time, I'm going to call the cops.'"

[Elster88]

I don't believe a single word in that article.

[Frayed Knot]

Maybe he followed him into a 'Dinky Donuts'?

No, that was a tall guy.

[Frayed Knot]

ARod soap opera update of the night.

- he botched another ground ball, good chance it was a DP ball, and allowed a Bal'mer run to score
- he then came up with the bases loaded and no outs ... and singled in a run


3-1 Orioles after 6

[metirish]

You think he regrets getting traded to NY?